And why all this?
Look at it closely.

It is in order to prove to us that we, consumers, are your property, that we belong to you body and soul, that you have an exclusive right to our stomachs and limbs, and it is for you to nourish us and clothe us at your own price, however great may be your ignorance, your rapacity, or the inferiority of your position.
No, you are not men of practice; you are men of abstraction--and of extraction!.